Tag: milestones

We called this one in January! The Weeknd has become the first artist to have more than 100 million listeners on Spotify.

More than half of that $100m has been generated in the last five years, while 75% of the total has come from merchandise.

British music streaming service Roxi has signed up another starry playlist curator, and announced its first user figures.

Believe has announced that its distribution subsidiary TuneCore has now reached the milestone of $3bn of artist earnings, having hit the $2.5bn mark in April this year.

Startup Uppbeat emerged early in 2021 as a music licensing service for YouTubers, with a catalogue of 900 cleared tracks and a freemium business model.

It's more than a year since YouTube announced that it had 50 million paid subscribers for YouTube Music and YouTube Premium.

Something we missed in our report on Meta’s latest financial results yesterday: CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed a new milestone stat for its Instagram service.

Apple Music has announced a new milestone. No, not how many subscribers it has, but the number of tracks available on its service. It's 100m.

Congratulations are due to Ed Sheeran. First for becoming the first artist to reach the milestone of 100 million followers on Spotify...

Distributor TuneCore has now paid out more than $2.5bn to artists in royalties since the company was founded in 2006.

If you don't know them, they're one to the bn, coming in hard, you better watch it, er, Instagram. Okay, that's enough TikTok viral rap references. The news is that the short-videos app has officially reached the milestone...

It’s a quirk of Apple’s music business that the company has announced more public stats for its Shazam music-recognition subsidiary in the last year than it has for its flagship streaming service. Last November, Shazam...